Brendan Babb
@brendanbabb.bsky.social
Chief Innovation Officer & i-team Director, Anchorage, Alaska | Math | DJing | Biomimicry | GenAI
These are coral polyps, tiny animals that build coral reefs. Coral can grow into many shapes, including shelves, boulders, pillars, branches and cauliflower-like nubs. How these structures emerge is a kind of polyp packing problem. www.quantamagazine.org/the-elegant-...
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ChatGPT is an awesome tool for preparing facilitation, especially as an experienced facilitator. It helps me brainstorm creative agendas, foresee challenges, draft messaging, train co-facilitators, and wrap it all up…all with the facilitation methods I like. Paired with MiroAI….magic.
IMPORTANT NEW STUDY: Fully flexible parking rules would result in MORE NEW HOMES than legalizing granny flats & larger multifamily buildings near transit combined, even if every new building still included some amount of parking. The #PowerOfParking. @sightline.org www.sightline.org/2024/12/10/p...
Our $13M Boston Acquisition Fund offers low-interest loans to local, mission-driven developers to purchase housing, keep tenants in their homes, and make sure these properties remain permanently affordable.
Boston launches new fund to preserve affordable rental properties
The fund will provide loans to developers to buy existing rental properties and prevent them being sold to investors who would convert them to condos.
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Paris definitely wasn’t always this way. This is very recent. It wasn’t magic. It just took vision and leadership. Your city could choose leadership too. Great pic via @JBPssx
Just started reading this at lunch (Alaska is 4 hours earlier than East Coast) and it so cool! Thanks US Digital Response and State of New Jersey for this amazing research and work and for sharing it openly for other states and cities to leverage and remix!
Krista Canellakis@kristallakis.bsky.social · 2y agoUSDR released a no-code approach & free toolkit to help governments train gen AI with human-centered data to more quickly translate benefits delivery content. So proud to collaborate with the State of NJ & Google.org on this work!! www.usdigitalresponse.org/resources/so...
2/ A big thank you to these powerhouse panelists, @eyalfeder.bsky.social, Arti Tangri, Carrie Bishop, and Enzhou Wang, who made moderating this session a great experience and shared fantastic insights.
Stephen Goldsmith@goldsmithongov.bsky.social · 2y ago1/ Moderating a great conversation today at the 2024 GovAI Coalition Summit @cityofsanjose.bsky.social and Government Technology. I had the honor of leading a data governance session discussing ethics and best practices for public sector employees on the front lines of integrating #AI and #GenAI...
1/ Moderating a great conversation today at the 2024 GovAI Coalition Summit @cityofsanjose.bsky.social and Government Technology. I had the honor of leading a data governance session discussing ethics and best practices for public sector employees on the front lines of integrating #AI and #GenAI...
A good discussion about the #energy future of #Anchorage, #Alaska at the #Assembly retreat on Energy & Infrastructure. I'll be on a panel at 1pm talking about solar & Muni buildings. Happening now at UAA Student Union - muni.org/Departments/... Live feed - www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqlt...
Assembly Retreat on Energy & Infrastructure
YouTube video by Municipality of Anchorage Meetings
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Honored to be named one of @statescoop.bsky.social's 2024 City Executives of the Year, on behalf of the #Anchorage i-team (Ben Matheson & Emily Bokar), Muni IT Dept., Muni employees & partners. #Alaska #LocalGovernment #iteams @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social statescoop.com/list/announc...
IMPORTANT STUDY: “On average, the implementation of 30 km/h speed limits in European cities demonstrated a 23%, 37% & 38% reduction in road crashes, fatalities & injuries respectively. Lower speed limits also yielded environmental benefits.” www.nrso.ntua.gr/review-of-ci...
#GivingTuesday - I'm the co-captain of @codeforanchorage.org and we would love you to consider donating to our #civictech volunteer group - hcb.hackclub.com/donations/st... We have been making projects for 12 years for #Anchorage & #Alaska and funds go to pay for software services, pizza and more.
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Code for Anchorage@codeforanchorage.org · 2y ago#GivingTuesday - Please donate to @codeforanchorage.org and help us keep creating #CivicTech projects for #Anchorage, #Alaska - hcb.hackclub.com/donations/st... Learn more about our volunteer group & help us pay for AWS, Twilio, Pizza & more. 12 years & counting codeforanchorage.org
If you zone it, they will come. Trend in “Attached Accessory Dwelling Units” (planner-speak for housing units like basement apartments) since zoning/parking restrictions were removed (data and graph from new University of Toronto School of Cities report schoolofcities.github.io/gentle-densi...)
Totally agree! Also their is a certain excitement in having an idea and having #GenAI create quick prototypes moments later for you to refine that is very energizing.
Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 2y agoYou probably aren’t being ambitious enough in your AI experiments. Start with completely out there applications, assess them, and then reign in your ambitions from there. You might be inspired or surprised about how good AI is, or you might discover useful limitations earlier.
This should be an informative and interesting show on Wednesday, Dec. 4th. I’ve heard @cmyeaton.bsky.social speak several times and enjoyed her perspective.
Anne Zink@annezinkmd.bsky.social · 2y agoExcited to host Caitlin Rivers on Line One this Wednesday, Dec 4th, at 10 am to discuss her new book Tune in on #Alaska FM 91.1, online at akpub.io/3AMXcC0, or your favorite app Leave a message or join us live with your question or story! 📞 Call: 1-800-478-8255 📨 Email: lineone@alaskapublic.com
“Believe it or not, electric bikes offer more exercise than pedal bikes on average. That fact might sound strange, but the science is clear.” Why e-bikes actually give more exercise than “acoustic”bikes. (but both/either are excellent when it comes to better cities) electrek.co/2024/02/20/w...
Why electric bikes actually give more exercise than pedal bikes
Believe it or not, electric bikes offer more exercise than pedal bikes on average. That fact might sound strange (and...
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Find out what #indigenous land you are on. @codeforanchorage.org collaboration w/ Native Lands Digital - native-land.ca land.codeforanchorage.org
Land Acknowledgement
Learn more about the land you're living, working, or recreating on. Data from native-land.ca/
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Apply for Bloomberg American Sustainable Cities (BASC) Innovation Teams - Experiment - #GenAI podcast fed job descriptions & overview - www.brendanbabb.com/experiments/... Job Listings - publicinnovation.jhu.edu/about/career... Not reviewed by @publicinno.bsky.social #LocalGov #iteams Apply!
More cool stuff out of the @boston.gov!
Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭@mayorwu.boston.gov · 2y agoBoston’s new bus shelter green roofs will help keep commuters cool, mitigate flooding, and create a citywide pollinator pathway. Thanks for your kind words @cabellt.bsky.social. We’re really proud of this initiative and our amazing partners making it happen.
Please enjoy this animation of peak hour MTA subway service (by u/mtdfan)
Reviewing our first year of data about e-bikes in the Bluebikes public bike share system. e-bikes get used much more frequently and people travel farther on them. Those things are workhorses.
You should check out my friend, @lanefab.bsky.social low-carbon house designs and more. And he is a really nice guy.
Bryn Davidson - Lanefab@lanefab.com · 2y agoOk - 5k followers on bsky, most in just the last two weeks. It’s amazing how quickly this community has come together and how shockingly normal y’all are
"if you unsubscribed by mistake" I HAVE NEVER UNSUBSCRIBED BY MISTAKE it is always 10000% intentional
A cool project I worked on w/@codeforanchorage.org, created in collaboration w/Native Lands Digital that lets you enter your city or zip code and learn what #indigenous land you are on. Also a FB Messenger bot - www.messenger.com/t/LandAcknow... land.codeforanchorage.org
Land Acknowledgement
Learn more about the land you're living, working, or recreating on. Data from native-land.ca/
land.codeforanchorage.org
Code for Anchorage@codeforanchorage.org · 2y agoCheck out our Land Acknowledgement website & FB Messenger bot for learning what #Indigenous land you are on. We collaborated w/Native Lands Digital (who ask that you use data w/care) native-land.ca #LandAcknowledgement @civictechallies.bsky.social @codeforanchorage.org land.codeforanchorage.org
A) I love #Clippy references - B) A good example of what I have been thinking about. Making agents for residents to navigate government services. Privacy & security needs to be figured out, but having an agent watch you apply for SNAP & advise you on next steps to succeed. C) Fix the damn website
Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 2y agoWhat if Clippy, but good? I asked Claude with computer use to watch me try to download an academic paper through the web and then give me advice on how to do it better & do it itself. Then I asked it to help me understand how to take good notes on a scientific paper & do that. Pretty sophisticated
